Specialist Support Worker - Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom - Look Ahead Housing and Care

Look Ahead Housing and Care
Look Ahead Housing and Care
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Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom

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Job profile:


  • The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
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Job details:
Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ00458
  • Date posted
  • 23/05/202 Application closing date
  • 20/06/202 Location
  • Tower Hamlets
  • Salary
- £25,944 per annum

  • Package
  • Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
  • Contractual hours
  • 40
  • Basis
  • Full time
  • Job category/type
  • Full Time, Permanent
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Specialist Support Worker:

Job description
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We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Specialist Support Worker to join our Mental Health service in Tower Hamlets
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  • No personal care or experience is required, just the right values._
£25,944 per annum, working 40 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
Want to feel like you're making a difference? You'll feel at home here._
Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team.

After all, our people are doing something amazing:
helping to transform lives every day.

  • The service is located at 98 Cudworth Street, Bethnal Green, E1 5QU. 10 minutes walk from Bethnal Green/White chapel tube station and 1 minute walk from Bethnal Green over ground. The office entrance is from Barnsley street, which is the next street behind Cudworth street.
  • Tower Hamlets
Rehab Service offers an intensive mental health residential rehabilitation service for eleven men and women over 18 years of age, with severe and enduring mental needs within Tower Hamlets. The service provides support to two cohorts of customers. 6 of the customers in the short term service receive rehabilitative treatment for up to a two year period, and 5 in the long term service receive treatment for up to a five year period.

  • As part of the contract we work in partnership with clinicians from East London Foundation Trust in providing a specialist clinical input to our customers. The support is coordinated through a formal partnership between Rehab support staff and Bethnal Green Community Mental Health Team in Tower Hamlets. This partnership enables each customer to access support through skilled, dedicated, onsite support staff provision as well as the full resource range of a multidisciplinary, clinical team.
  • The Service provides 24/7 across 365 days with 2 staff availability at all times. You will be part of a support staff of eight.
  • The Rehab service prides itself with ongoing clinical input through weekly clinical meetings with Consultant Psychiatrist and other clinicians as well as the team having regular reflective group sessions with a Clinical Psychologist facilitating the group. It also offers an opportunity to work and learn in a recently awarded outstanding quality service.
  • Postholders will be required to demonstrate strengths in all the indicators set out in the relevant Look Ahead Competency Model.

More specifically, the post-holder will:
To provide intensive support (both practical and emotional) to people living in the Project

  • To act as a positive influence on clients encouraging responsible behaviour and self reliance
  • To support people in a way that maximises their selfsufficiency and enables them to live independently in their own homes
  • To act as a resource coordinator and advocate in order that clients can make informed choices about how they live in the local community
  • This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation._

What you'll do:


Practice

  • Undertake key working responsibilities for a caseload assigned by the Team Leader/Manager
  • Undertake initial & continuous assessment of needs and potential risks & agree levels of support and actions
  • Create support/ action plans for providing appropriate services based on the assessment and reflecting the services and resources available
  • Provide structured support and guidance to other front line staff in their area of expertise, and to contribute to the relevant internal specialist forum
  • Develop and maintain links with all key agencies and service providers in the local community
  • Empower customers to ensure they receive the service and benefits they are entitled to
  • Undertake all administrative work and keep accurate and comprehensive tenant/ customer records to professional standards
  • Encourage and enable tenants to pay their rent and to ensure that rent accounts are managed effectively in conjunction with the Housing Management team
  • To adhere to Look Ahead's Policies and Procedures
  • To engage in learning and development activity to increase knowledge a
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